Undergraduate - UnitATS3462 - International crime and justice

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2014 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

Synopsis

This unit is focused on international crime and justice. This unit draws on scholarship in criminology, and international relations to engage students in current critical debates concerning the increasing integration of national and international systems of law enforcement and criminal justice. A range of critical and analytic approaches to contemporary global crime and justice issues will be introduced and students will undertake problem based learning focused on key unit objectives.

Outcomes

By the successful completion of this unit, students will have acquired the following skills:

A grounded working knowledge of the major criminological and political approaches to international issues in crime and justice

An informed theoretical critique of issues related to international crime and criminal justice operate and impacts in Australia and beyond its borders

An interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of international crime and justice including the size and nature of the crime global crime problem and international enforcement measures

Library based research skills and a working knowledge of the major data-bases used in criminology

The ability to think critical and analytically, and to be able to articulate those thought processes in a high standard of written and oral expression

A focus upon the production of scholarly research as the end point of a process of reading, discussion, drafting and debate

The ability to work both independently as scholars, give and receive critical feedback and to participate actively in group research activities.

Third-year students will be expected to demonstrate greater capacity for independent research and will be required to answer a class test of a more conceptually challenging nature.

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Workload requirements

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Prerequisites

ATS1281/ATS1282 (These units are prerequisites ONLY if the student wishes to undertake a Criminology major or minor. All other students can take this unit having completed any first year Arts sequence or by permission.)